'How are things back at the office?' one of the gentlemen in my bicycle tour group asked me as we were nearing the end of a lengthy ride through the scenic countryside. 'I assume they are going fine,' I said. ' I haven t had any contact and I don t plan to. Why would I ruin the environment we had traveled thousands of miles to create by bringing my work environment into it?' One of the primary purposes of taking a vacation is to rest and restore. How can you accomplish that goal if you simply move the source of the stress to a different location?